MR. O'HARA (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General if he is aware that the site for the new post office for Monaghan has been under consideration for over four years; will he say when it may be expected to be completed; and whether, seeing that the present office has been condemned as insanitary, and in view of the fact that the staff at the office are compelled to work under disadvantageous circumstances owing to the noxious smells and sewer gas from the basement, steps will be taken to complete the purchase of the site under consideration, for which the money was voted in 1903, or to accept the site offered to the post office in Market Street.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. SYDNEY BUXTON, Tower Hamlets, Poplar)I regret that the negotiations for the purchase of a site for a new post office at Monaghan have been unavoidably protracted, mainly on account of legal difficulties; but I hope that a satisfactory arrangement will be come to-at an early date.